skeptical - Story 133887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

It was the sudden upgrade to a private school for their children. That’s what started it. Mary knew the cost of private schools in the area. She and her husband had talked about it, but decided it wasn't feasible. The announcement from the Millers, so nonchalant, set her teeth on edge.

She remembered Mrs. Miller's frequent complaints about being short on funds. That all seemed like an elaborate play now, designed to make her look like one of the “good people”.

She excused herself from the conversation, a chill settling in her bones. She couldn't shake the feeling she'd been intentionally duped.

Emotion: skeptical

Cluster: Suspicion / Vigilance

PC1 (Valence): -0.02 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.45

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion skeptical. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 skeptical stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the skeptical emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the skeptical vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.468
`que`	0.396
`la`	0.346
`a`	0.333
`🧐`	0.327

Suppressed:

`再び`	-0.304
`终于`	-0.299
`再次`	-0.270
`終於`	-0.263
`momentarily`	-0.255